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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Contemplating Time

For my entire life I have measured time by semesters. Starting at Elementary school through High
School, then, moving on to College straight through to Graduate school. Then I worked in a profession that continued
this, I worked for over 10 years and continued to measure my time by this. Things like ‘winter break’, ‘finals,’ ‘end of
semester/year closure’ were part of my everyday vernacular.

Now here I am for the first time in my life and a semester
holds a whole different meaning for me, or really holds no meaning at all. A semester is coming to a close (3 months
since I left my job) and I am not helping students prepare for finals, prepping
for the next semester or pulling together ways for students to reflect on their
semester. I mentioned this odd place I
feel like I have found myself in to one of my new retail colleagues and she said
you must feel so free. I had not thought
of it as freeing, honestly I had thought of it as feeling lost. But when she said that it made me think that
yes this is actually another freeing moment in my journey. This entire ‘unemployment’ (I put that in quotes because I guess technically I am working) thing has definitely
at times felt quite freeing, though every now and then moments of hopelessness does rear its ugly head. When I let myself, I
do feel free, like the possibilities are endless, that this is a time to reinvent
myself. The problem is I am not sure I
want to reinvent myself or to even know where to start when it is comes to looking at different careers. Personally the freedom is
amazing and I have done some great work on me and really am less stressed then
I have felt in years. Though sometimes I
think about not feeling stressed and that makes me a little bit stressed!

So back to time; in the grand scheme of life only 3 months
have passed. Three years ago I spent 3
months traveling around the world (yes literally around the world). So much can happen in three months yet it is such a small
amount of time. Who knows what the next three months will hold for me.Sometimes I wish I had a time machine that
would let me know when things will unfold (because I know they will) and when I
will know what my next steps will be.What I do know is that if I focus too much on thinking of what is next I
will lose touch with what is happening right now and there is a lot of good
going on right now and really life is good.

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